Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The (Socialist) Malala Yousafzai the US Media Doesn’t Quote

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, October 16, 2014

The (Socialist) Malala Yousafzai the US Media Doesn’t Quote

Click here to access article by Ben Norton from CounterPunch. (You will need to scroll down to the article.)

Norton exposes the contrast between the full stated views of the Nobel Prize winner and the "re-constituted" version crafted by Empire media directors in order that we are not tempted with "wrong" ideas about the system and the Empire's policies. Nowadays Empire media directors must be working overtime to re-construct the news to fit their class interests.

As much as it accentuates Malala’s thoughts on education and nonviolence, nonetheless, what the US corporate media never mentions is the side of Malala it doesn’t like, the side of Malala that doesn’t serve but rather challenges Western imperialist interests, the side of Malala that overtly opposes not just US drone strikes but capitalism itself.